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Topic: Curious about B&H & mkiii shipments (Read 62199 times)

Hmmmm so I wonder if the April 2nd is still another date they will receive a shipment? if so maybe mine will be in it. Does anyone know if they just don't receive shipments during their holiday? There must be some workers maybe receiving shipments or something? If not I feel I might as well just cancel and take the hit for currency exchange and walk into a local store and buy one before my trip to Hawaii in May. Never would have thought that ordering 36 hours after the pre-order became available would put me in the 3rd, 4th, or maybe even 5th shipment.

Here in Atlanta, no Best Buy stores will be carrying the 5D3 in the store, you have to order it. This was learned and verified with a visit to a store that carries the 5D2 and looking at the inventory readout on the BB computer system and looking at the inventory control codes.

I walked into a Best Buy on Sunday, March 25, with a 10% off coupon and a $50 rewards card. Ordered the camera, the 10% off was honored as it did not exclude Canon DSLR (it did exclude Nikon and Sony), applied the rewards card and was all done for $3165 including tax. There were 63 in the warehouse at the time. Now, there are none.

BB called 2 days later and I picked up the camera on Wednesday March 28.

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Best Buy in NY is selling them in store. You can check inventory on bestbuy.com and enter your zip code. Not available for shipping, only in-store pick up. I got mine in Westbury, NY last week and cancelled my B&H pre-order. Right now the body only is in stock in Valley Stream, NY. Worth a try to check near you, you may get lucky.